Journey Through The Decacast

Episode 100: Cast 039: Heisei Generations FOREVER

August 2nd, 2020  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 51 mins

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Everyone noticed it was EPISODE 100 YAAAAAAAAAAAAY so instead of going with just another weekly trek through the past, our hosts covered the most recently translated official release... which is a way higher-budget trek through the past that also tries so much less hard to make sense than the already low bar for time travel stories in this show.

But at least everyone loves the Build cast!

Episode 88: Mask 5 - Tokusatsu GaGaGa 5

May 3rd, 2020  |  Season 0  |  51 mins 22 secs

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It's time for everyone's favorite part of a Japanese drama: the beach episode!

What do you mean Tokusatsu GaGaGa is a comedy

Episode 83: Splinter 010: April Fool's 2020

March 29th, 2020  |  Season 0  |  21 mins 19 secs

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Another April looms, and that means your humble editor gets to have his way with the show for a week. As an aside - did you know Garrett has a second podcast? You do now.

Episode 81: Gem 01 - Mashin Sentai Kiramager 01

March 15th, 2020  |  Season 0  |  1 hr 2 mins

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This week, Evan's body literally rebelled against the thought of more Kiva, so a replacement topic had to be found, and wouldn't you know it, the new season of Super Sentai has just kicked off.

Episode 80: Mask 4 - Tokusatsu GaGaGa 4

March 8th, 2020  |  Season 0  |  1 hr 3 mins

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This time around, two hosts return to loving parody Tokusatsu GaGaGa and ask themselves the question: "what do you mean we can stay on-topic during a comedy show?"

Episode 56: Splinter 007 - English Tokusatsu

September 21st, 2019  |  Season 0  |  7 mins 27 secs

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On the continued summer break of our hosts, your humble editor takes over for a brief blip to talk about the confusing and wild history of US releases of tokusatsu television (barring, of course, that entire Kikaider special from a while back). Spoilers: it's basically all Super Sentai.

Episode 50: Splinter 05: Android Kikaider

August 10th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  17 mins 37 secs

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Were you one of the tens of people upset by two hosts who knew nothing about a tokusatsu classic covering the arc that was a giant love letter to it? The show's editor was, which is why you're getting a crash course on Android Kikaider while the crew get ahead on Kiva.

Episode 46: Splinter 04.5: Toku News Nut-work

July 13th, 2019  |  Season 0  |  27 mins 40 secs

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With our hosts away during convention season (and if you saw Garrett on a panel this weekend: hi!), the shadow producer steps in to perform again with a roundup of a lot of tokusatsu related news from the past few weeks. The first rider of the Reiwa era! Ultraman in English! And the sad fate of sentai. Plus: lewd acts!

Episode 41: Splinter 004: Six Degrees of Fujioka

June 8th, 2019  |  Season 0  |  42 mins 39 secs

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Fletcher and friend Fiona faff about around Fujioka, the original Rider actor who continues playing his part in some form in the franchise to this day.

Episode 38: Splinter 003 - Kamen Core OR Rider 101

May 18th, 2019  |  Season 0  |  14 mins 37 secs

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With the hosts away, the editor will play. Or not! Welcome to a quick audio glossary of Rider lingo.